Corus starts tomorrow Short in group A Howell in group B.

[Ian Lamb]

Participants grandmaster group A
Name Country Rating Position
GM Magnus Carlsen NOR 2810 1 Photo
GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2790 3 Photo
GM Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2788 4 Photo
GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2749 8 Photo
GM Peter Leko HUN 2739 12 Photo
GM Alexei Shirov SPA 2723 20 Photo
GM Sergey Karjakin RUS 2720 21 Photo
GM Leinier Dominguez CUB 2712 25 Photo
GM Hikaru Nakamura USA 2708 28 Photo
GM Nigel Short ENG 2696 38 Photo
GM Fabiano Caruana ITA 2675 51 Photo
GM Sergey Tiviakov NED 2662 62 Photo
GM Jan Smeets NED 2657 73 Photo
GM Loek van Wely NED 2641 104 Photo

Average rating : 2719
Category : 19

FIDE-ratings of January 2010

[Ian Lamb]

group B GM Arkadij Naiditsch GER 2687 Photo
GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu ROM 2681 Photo
GM Pentala Harikrishna IND 2672 Photo
GM Hua Ni CHN 2657 Photo
GM Emil Sutovsky ISR 2657 Photo
GM Wesley So PHI 2656 Photo
GM Tomi Nyback FIN 2643 Photo
GM Varuzhan Akobian USA 2628 Photo
GM Parimarjan Negi IND 2621 Photo
GM Erwin l'Ami NED 2615 Photo
GM David Howell ENG 2606 Photo
GM Anish Giri NED 2588 Photo
GM Dimitri Reinderman NED 2573 Photo
IM Anna Muzychuk SLO 2523 Photo

[Ian Lamb]

GM Li Chao CHN 2604 Photo
GM Abhijeet Gupta IND 2577 Photo
GM Ray Robson USA 2570 Photo
GM Kjetil Lie NOR 2547 Photo
IM Nils Grandelius SWE 2515 Photo
GM Robin Swinkels NED 2495 Photo
GM Daniele Vocaturo ITA 2495 Photo
IM Robin van Kampen NED 2456 Photo
IM Mariya Muzychuk UKR 2447 Photo
GM Zhaoqin Peng NED 2402 Photo
FM Stefan Kuipers NED 2340 Photo
WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 2323 Photo
FM Benjamin Bok NED 2322 Photo
Sjoerd Plukkel NED 2279 Photo

group C here .

[Ian Lamb]

who your tips to win each group? And how do you think Short and Howell will perform in the 13 round robin? Adams this year is playing in Gibralter for the first time.

[Carl Hibbard]

Who your tips to win each group? And how do you think Short and Howell will perform in the 13 round robin? Adams this year is playing in Gibralter for the first time.

A. Kramnik
B. Naiditsch
C. Robson

[Ian Lamb]

ok i will go for.


A. Carlsen
B. So
C.Robson

[Ian Lamb]

Also if you want to check the corus website which is always very good and clear here the direct link to it.
http://www.coruschess.com/participants. ... 10&group=2

[Ian Lamb]

It will also be nice to see Anand the world champion back in Action before his defence of his title v Topalov in April 2010.

[Carl Hibbard]

With everyone gunning for Carlsen as the new number one I saw enough from Kramnik in London to place my money (actual bet...) there

[Sean Hewitt]

who your tips to win each group? And how do you think Short and Howell will perform in the 13 round robin? Adams this year is playing in Gibralter for the first time.

Not so Ian. Mickey has played Gib once before. It was either two or three years ago.

[Ian Kingston]

Adams finished =5th in 2007.

[Ian Lamb]

ok sorry Iam wrong there thanks for Correcting me Sean an Ian I remember him playing corus most years in A section as well.Its a lot warmer in Gibralter so iam sure his wife prefers it there

[Ian Lamb]

Iam right on this one i think it will be GM Hikaru Nakamura first corus as he usally plays in Gibralter.

[Sean Hewitt]

Iam right on this one i think it will be GM Hikaru Nakamura first corus as he usally plays in Gibralter.

Correct. Naka actually turned Corus down last year in order to play Gibraltar.

However, it's not always warm in Gib in January, let me tell you!!

[Ian Lamb]

Short lost and next up world champion with Black not good. Howell looks like he just messed up a great game that a real shame Negi got out of Jail there.Look like it was time trouble that cost David Howell the win there.